Beyoncé's 4 wins the album chart numbers game

4+21+19 = a unique situation in the artist album chart where, for the first time ever, the titles of three of the top five albums are made up entirely of numbers.

Adele contributes 10 times as much to this numerical novelty as Beyoncé but it is the latter that emerges, with the bigger prize and the smaller number, with 4 ranking one, 21 ranking two and 19 ranking five.

As its title suggests, 4 is Beyoncé’s fourth regular studio album - its release perfectly timed to coincide with Beyoncé’s appearance her critically-acclaimed Glastonbury set, which occupied 90 minutes of BBC2 airtime on Sunday night.

The album made a fast start, and sold 89,211 copies to become Beyoncé ’s second solo number one, eight years to the week after her first solo album, Dangerously In Love, dashed to the summit on first week sales of 113,117.

Incubus, "If Not Now, When?"

Incubus, "If Not Now, When?" (Epic)

It's been five years since "Light Grenades" gave Incubus its first chart-topping album. So what do they do for an encore? Brandon Boyd, who went solo last year on an album called "The Wild Trapeze," told Noisecreep to expect an album unlike anything they've done. "We're going to kind of challenge our fans with this one," he said. "But I'm excited about that. I think that's what needs to happen." Billboard says, "It's a worthwhile reinvention, but a little more noise wouldn't have hurt, either."

Beyonce - Best Thing I Never Had

This is fire! Check out the premiere of "Best Thing I Never Had", the official second single by R&B star Beyonce from her upcoming album '4' which will hit stores on June 28th, 2011 - "Best Thing I Never Had" is a powerful piano-driven ballad in which Beyonce 'thanks God' she didn't end up with a guy that didn't deserve her. Poor dude gets told off by Queen B! This is gonna be Beyonce's new "Irreplaceable". So good.

Lady Gaga - Born This Way

Born This Way features production from Lady Gaga, Fernando Garibay, RedOne, Jeppe Laursen, and DJ White Shadow among others. The origins of the album first came about in early 2010, while the title was revealed in September at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards after Gaga's win of the Video of the Year Award.^[2] Recording sessions took place at various recording studios around the world. Just a week before the album's scheduled release, the contents were leaked online, but were shortly removed due to copyright violations.^[3]

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